The people of northern Uganda have lived with war for two decades as the country's government unsuccessfully tried to quell the rebellion by the Lord's Resistance Army. No-one is unaffected. Everyone either tells a story of survival or of loss.

Find out the personal stories of one devastated village by clicking on the links below.

Richard was among the men who first returned to Apungi village during December 2006, six months after the current, on-going peace talks were initiated.

Two of Richard and Hellen's children have died from malaria - Lea in 2005, aged five, and Sharoline in 2006, aged two.

Their five remaining children are Walter, who is 13, and Jomo who is 11. Caroline is nine, Gloria is seven and Naome is their baby and just one-year-old.

The family had been eating porridge under this tree when the rebels attacked

Richard's eldest brother, David Okello, was 50 when he was killed by the LRA on 14 June 2005 when their village in Abia Parish was attacked.

That Tuesday, his brother, David, and eight other relatives died, as well as two fellow villagers - Peter Aketo and his wife, Icatto Akello. They were all slaughtered under a mango tree where they had been sitting around eating porridge. It was early in the morning.

Richard and his other brother who also lives in Apungi, Moses, buried them under the tree where they had been slain, later that day when they were sure that the rebels had left the area.

Peter Aketo was abducted three times between 2002 and 2003. He escaped each time.

But then on 14 June 2005, he and his wife, Icatto Akello, were killed by LRA rebels. They were killed the same Tuesday morning as Richard Okello and Moses Odia's family were. The couple did not have any children.

All that is left to show where their home once stood is a mango tree. Village compounds in northern Uganda are characterised by having a mango tree growing close by. The tree provides the dwellers with fruit.

The remaining family members held objects to represent each of their 10 lost relatives

Moses Odia is 51 years old. He was abducted in 2003 but for only a day and a night - some rebels forced him to carry looted goods for them.

His wife is called Sophia and they have had eight children together. Their first son, Okullo, died from measles in 1981 when he was four years old, before the war began. Their son Bendicto is 24 and alive as is Patrick who is 20. Geoffry, 22, was abducted in 2003. He returned after seven months.

Their son Ochen would have been 18 this year. Ochen died of malaria in 1989.

Innocent, their youngest son, will be 15 this year.

Moses chose to hold a calabash - important in village life - to symbolize his late mother, Beca

He was abducted when he was 11 on 29 June 2003. Innocent is yet to return home. The LRA is notorious for abducting children to use as sex slaves or fighters.

Their two daughters are still living with them - Grace is 14 and Coline is eight.

Moses' brother Richard also lives in the village. Their elder brother, David, was killed when rebels attacked Apungi on 14 June 2005. The rebels killed him and eight other members of their family.

Their 60-year-old mother, Beca Akello, was murdered. Their sister Mary, who was 28 at the time, was killed, as were her three daughters: eight-year-old Kevin [popular girl's name in Uganda], Robina who was four and one-year-old Ajwang.

Their sister Rose was also killed with her son Atim. As was their four-year-old cousin Jack.

It is possible that Ebongo had been abducted when he was a young boy. Often what happens is that the rebels force children to kill a parent or a sibling before taking them with them back into the bush. If such abductees do escape, they fear going home to their family after what they have done.

Widow Haida has not yet returned to her family's village home. Her husband, Peter Amwar, and their oldest son, Benard, were killed by LRA rebels on 17 November 2003.

Haida's youngest son, Geoffry, who was 15 at the time, was shot in the leg during the attack and then abducted. No-one knows if Geoffry is dead or alive.

Civilians who leave the camps to return to their villages have to rebuild their homes and clear their land to cultivate.

Women who have lost their husbands and sons find these tasks difficult as labour of this sort is seen as men's work. However, the remaining men in the community do try and step in to help the widows and the elderly.

Yubentino Odongo was killed by LRA rebels when they attacked the nearby displaced people's camp of Abia on 4 February 2004.

He was 45 years old.

His wife and five children had left their village home and moved to the camp. Families were advised to relocate, with the belief that there is safety in numbers.

But the LRA rebels ambushed the Ugandan government soldiers who were guarding the camp at 1700 local time.

There were too few soldiers to protect the people.

Eyewitnesses described how some 300 rebels set fire to the thatched grass hut roofs and killed many civilians. Some said at least 100 people were killed that day. Some said the number was not that high. It is difficult to know for sure.